New Seabus: Burrard Pacific Breeze - Page 7

Distill3d · #**121** Posted **Feb 11, 2009, 6:44 AM**

so, uh, did anyone get any pictures?

nova9 · #**122** Posted **Feb 11, 2009, 7:46 AM**

Darn, I saw an update and thought someone had posted photos. Haha, no someone else will come here seeing my update thinking the same thing.

Oops.

Distill3d · #**123** Posted **Feb 11, 2009, 8:04 AM**

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Originally Posted by nova9

Darn, I saw an update and thought someone had posted photos. Haha, no someone else will come here seeing my update thinking the same thing.

Oops.

yep! damnit! lol

metroXpress · #**124** Posted **Feb 12, 2009, 5:26 AM**

^ Someone will post it...

raggedy13 · #**125** Posted **Feb 12, 2009, 6:52 AM**

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Originally Posted by nova9

Darn, I saw an update and thought someone had posted photos. Haha, no someone else will come here seeing my update thinking the same thing.

Oops.

And now I'm the next one guilty of this.

Whalleyboy · #**126** Posted **Feb 12, 2009, 8:16 AM**

okay no one after me post unless you have a picture!
this is getting bad we all are getting false hope=(

officedweller · #**127** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 7:12 PM**

From the Buzzer Blog (pic is big):

http://buzzer.translink.ca/wp-conten...l-at-vsl-5.jpg

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Thanks to the Victoria Shipyards, here is a photo of the aluminum SeaBus passenger house that was floated out to their yards last week. (It was the subject of the SeaBus photo opp from last Tuesday, if you managed to catch it.)

This is the main passenger house of the third SeaBus, the Burrard Pacific Breeze, which is being built out at Victoria Shipyards and should be finished by this fall. If you click the photo for a larger version, you can actually see the words “Burrard Pacific Breeze” written on the middle of the passenger house.

The passenger house actually arrived at the shipyards last Wednesday morning (Feb. 11, as the photo date indicates). The picture shows the house after being offloaded from the barge. From here, the passenger house will be moved into an indoor shop, the wheelhouse/HVAC modules will be mounted above the passenger house, and they’ll start outfitting the interior of the vessel.

Just thought you’d like the update!

metroXpress · #**128** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 7:18 PM**

^ Thanks for the pic! I guess there are still more work to be done on it!

dreambrother808 · #**129** Posted **Feb 20, 2009, 8:37 PM**

to say the least....

CBeats · #**130** Posted **Mar 5, 2009, 9:19 AM**

sooo i read this whole thread and West Van seems to be getting quite a lot of flack from everyone...
does anyone actually live there, or know a substantial amount of people in the right demographic for transit use downtown?

there is some density around Park Royal. that new development "Evelyn Drive" surrounds park royal north, and it's a bunch of condominiums.
--> not to say that this kinda thing merits a skytrain across the lions gate bridge. the way i see it, a tram line like the one downtown will have can go in on londsdale and extend along marine drive to Park Royal. that's pretty much as far into WV as anyone will allow it to go.
i'm not sure that a skytrain will ever go into North van. it's like when they wanted to bore a tunnel under eagle ridge bluffs instead of cutting across them - the tunnel was gonna be $1billion, half the cost of the Sea-to-Sky upgrade into itself or something. totally unreasonable
it's too expensive for the short distance the skytrain would travel to londsdale. they will probably just have to add a 4th seabus later or something

btw, "Pacific Breeze" sounds like it should be a tourist boat that ferries people around in a water-themed amusement park. tacky as hell

anyway, just thought i'd point that out...

LeftCoaster · #**131** Posted **Mar 5, 2009, 6:08 PM**

I live in WV and I can tell you with the upmost certainty that despite high levels of density all along Marine Dr to Dundurave there will never be a skytrain to WV. You guys complain about NIMBYs in Vancouver or Kits but you haven't seen anything yet... just try to change anything in WV, its like a mouse trying to move a boulder... far too many spoiled housewives and retirees with nothing better to do.

Distill3d · #**132** Posted **Mar 5, 2009, 7:39 PM**

^yep, that sounds like West Van alright. i'd take it a step further and say that the WASPs think that anyone who doesn't drive at least a Mercedes lives in the ghetto.

wrenegade · #**133** Posted **Mar 6, 2009, 8:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by CBeats

sooo i read this whole thread and West Van seems to be getting quite a lot of flack from everyone...
does anyone actually live there, or know a substantial amount of people in the right demographic for transit use downtown?

there is some density around Park Royal. that new development "Evelyn Drive" surrounds park royal north, and it's a bunch of condominiums

I also live West Van, and the Nimbys are out of control here. Hell, our MAYOR is a Nimby. Don't really hold out much hope for the West Van densifying. I'd love to see more around Ambleside, and, I'm sure the businesses around there would too. Oh well. Maybe in 10 years when a bunch of the seniors are gone.

Oh, and nothing has happened at Evelyn in months. I pass it twice a day on my way downtown.

Pinion · #**134** Posted **Mar 6, 2009, 8:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by awvan

Oh well. Maybe in 10 years when a bunch of the seniors are gone.

The senior citizen population is going to rapidly increase for the next few decades... get out while you still can.

officedweller · #**135** Posted **Jun 3, 2009, 7:00 PM**

From the Buzzer Blog:

http://buzzer.translink.ca/

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Here’s a little update about the third SeaBus, which is currently being built over at the Victoria Shipyards. Along with two photos, I got this email from fleet management this morning:

I thought you might be interested to know that the hulls and the superstructure of the 3rd SeaBus have now been connected! Or at least, they’ve been assembled, and will now be welded together. The mast hasn’t been mounted to the vessel yet, but they’re expecting to do that later this week.

One more photo of the SeaBus under construction is below. FYI, the third SeaBus is slated to go in service at the end of 2009. Here’s an earlier post showing the passenger house arriving at the shipyards in February.

Pinion · #**136** Posted **Jun 3, 2009, 7:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by officedweller

From the Buzzer Blog:

"...The mast hasn’t been mounted to the vessel yet, but they’re expecting to do that later this week."

http://buzzer.translink.ca/

Mast? Like.... for a sail?

Gotta say I like the old design better aesthetics-wise. Ironically it looks more modern.